If we treated climate change in the same way, of course we would deal with it quicker.'Ĭhapman argues that fusion has the potential to replace gas and coal as the source of 'base load' continuous energy production to supplement weather-dependent sources of green power. We should realize that this is an existential problem and deal with it in the same way that we have approached Covid-19, where we have invested heavily in the technology that it going to get us out of the crisis.
Globally, we are spending hundreds of billions this year on extracting fossil fuels. As a society, we don't have our priorities in the right place. 'There are all sorts of things that we should be investing hundreds of billions into and we're not. Speaking ahead of a forum on fusion power at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the chief executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) warned that global leaders have not yet fully grasped the urgency and importance of fully funding existing and emerging technologies such as fusion, carbon capture and next generation solar power to provide a full portfolio of green energy sources. The world needs to mount a 'Covid-scale' investment worth hundreds of billions of pounds in green technologies if it is to tackle global warming, the head of Britain's nuclear fusion programme Ian Chapman has warned in an interview with i News.
